For as long as we can remember, Meta has been the tip of the surveillance state spear. The company has amassed an unprecedented amount of intimate data about billions of people — and treated that invasive information with a well-documented level of carelessness.
One of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s most beloved pet projects, the company’s camera-adorned and AI Glasses, has brought the company’s shoddy treatment of privacy into stark relief, from data labeler contractors in Kenya watching footage of users getting undressed to failing to take down vile smart glasses-recorded footage of sexual harassment on public streets.
Meanwhile, Meta’s platforms are choking the web in a tidal wave of horrifying AI slop, including a plethora of visceral videos of physical child abuse — footage Meta has told Futurism doesn’t necessarily break its policies.
It’s the kind of dystopian environment Zuckerberg is seemingly trying to shield his own daughter from — sort of. According to a new profile about the Zuckerbergs in Colossus, the CEO’s wife, Priscilla Chan, boasted that the couple’s 11-year-old daughter Maxima has been vibe coding messaging apps and FarmVille-like games. (The piece doesn’t specify which daughter, but we doubt the other one, who’s only three, is capable of vibe coding just yet.)
